This is a 4-handed 4-tubular pieces version of Blue-bottle 18-21 with spiral text - for 4 readers, or for 2 readers with one piece in each hand [not so easy to do] - taking turns to read a line. The 4 pieces are numbered, 1-4 and, in so far as author-preference is a factor in choice, I planned them so that they could repeat the order of the printed text.
However, I wouldn't want that to be a rule. Nothing prevents readers reading them in any order they choose, though that would replace such continuities or discontinuities that might be felt between one line and the next in the printed version of the text with new ones.
One friend tells me he reads down the columns too - and of course the four pieces can be rolled around to display further combinations of the words of the text, ad lib.
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